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Purnell was referring to parliamentary elections due by next June, but the results of last week's municipal and European polls - a historic rout for Labour, a solid performance from the Conservatives and gains for fringe outfits including the far-right British National Party - graphically illustrated the concerns that launched Purnell's kamikaze mission. Labour's support has slumped under Brown. It has hemorrhaged support among the affluent voters of Middle England whose endorsement is essential to securing a parliamentary majority, and whom it wooed successfully in the 1990s. And it has been damaged, too, in hardscrabble industrial regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labour Pains: Gordon Brown is Running Out of Time | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...vote be held again. He went on to say that the demonstrations should cease with protesters being "held responsible for chaos if they didn't end" and that a "street challenge is not acceptable." But Khamenei didn't just reserve his remarks for the Iranians. He called the British government "the most evil opponent" (The U.K. government has since summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest against the comment) and blamed external "enemies of Islam" for trying to stoke anger. "Some of our enemies in different parts of the world intended to depict this absolute victory, this definitive victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Supreme Leader: Ahmadinejad Won the Election | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...prominent investigative reporter in Northern Ireland, Suzanne Breen received the phone call from the Real IRA claiming responsibility for the murder of two British soldiers at Massereene army barracks in March - an attack that stunned Northern Ireland and stoked fears of a return to the sectarian conflict of the past. Two days later, a policeman was killed in Craigavon, County Armagh - the first police officer to be shot dead in the province in 12 years. And a series of low-level disturbances in April - petrol bombs, hoax devices, car-jackings - showed that dissident republicans, although small in number, remained intent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalist Wins Right to Withhold Information on the Real IRA | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...order to advance their investigation. Breen refused to co-operate, citing her right not to disclose her sources. Furthermore, she said she would face "a real and immediate threat to her life" from the Real IRA were she to comply with the police request. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalist Wins Right to Withhold Information on the Real IRA | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...right to life under the European Convention [on Human Rights]" "The Real IRA have killed, and attempted to kill, for much less. During the attack on the soldiers at Massereene barracks, the gunmen shot and seriously wounded two men delivering pizza to the barracks. Their crime? Collaborating with the British army, which, in the eyes of dissident republicans, made them legitimate murder targets. "Handing over this material would make me a target for immediate assassination", said Breen in her defense hearing last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalist Wins Right to Withhold Information on the Real IRA | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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